EX hAIMATWN (John 1:13)

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at mailhost.chi.ameritech.net
Fri Jan 21 21:40:00 EST 2000


Bill Ross wrote:

> <John>
>     -- the masculine initiative for sexual intercourse
>         (literally, "the will of the man," used to
>         designate the man as the one who takes the
>         initiative within the marriage  (p. 50).
>
> <Bill>
> It should be pointed out in support of this theory that the word "man" is
> not ANTHRWPOS but is actually ANER or "husband."
>

That ANER sometimes means "husband" is indisputable, but that "husband" is the only
meaning the word bore, as Bill seems to imply here, (or even its most prominent sense
-- to give Bill the benefit of the doubt) is something that the evidence of usage
belies.

Here's the entry from LSJ. As you'll see the meaning "husband" is pretty far down
there, where as "man" is up at the top.

Yours,

Jeffrey

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anêr, ho, andros, andri, andra, voc. aner: pl. andres, -drôn, -drasi
                     [a^], -dras: Aeol. dat. pl. andresi Alc.Supp.14.8: late nom. sg.
andras
                     Cat.Cod.Astr.7.109.7: in Att. the Art. often forms a crasis with
the
                     Noun, hanêr for ho anêr, tandros, tandri for tou andros, etc.,
handres
                     for hoi andres; the Ion. crasis is hônêr, hôndres, Hdt.
4.161,au=Hdt.
                     4.134=lr: Ep. also anera, aneros, aneri, dual anere, pl. aneres,

                     aneras, andressi. [Ep. Poets mostly use a_ in arsi, a^ in thesi;
but in
                     trisyll. forms with stem aner- always a_; so also Trag. in lyr.,
Soph.
                     Trach. 1011, ti=Soph. OT 869. But in Trag. senarians a^ always.]
(a-
                     in nom. by analogy; cf. Skt. nar- from I.-E. ner-, n&rnull;-
from
                     n&rnull;-, Gk. andr- from &nnull;r-):--

                      man, opp. woman (anthrôpos being man as opp. to beast), Hom.
Il.
                     17.435, Hom. Od. 21.323; tôn andrôn apais without male children,

                     Plat. Laws 877e; in Hom. mostly of princes, leaders, etc., but
also of
                     free men; a dêmou one of the people, Hom. Il. 2.198, cf. Hom.
Od.
                     17.352; with a qualifying word to indicate rank, a. boulêphoros
Hom.
                     Il. 2.61; a. basileus Hom. Od. 24.253; hêgêtores a. Hom. Il.
11.687.



                     II. man, opp. god, patêr andrôn te theôn te IBID=au=Hom. Il.
1.544,
                     al.; Dios angeloi êde kai andrôn IBID=au=Hom. Il. 1.334=lr, cf.
                     au=Hom. Il. 1.403=lr, Hdt. 5.63, etc.: most common in pl., yet
sts. in
                     sg., e.g. Hom. Il. 18.432:--

                      freq. with a Noun added, brotoi, thnêtoi a., Hom. Od.
                     5.197,au=Hom. Od. 10.306; a. hêmitheoi Hom. Il. 12.23; a. hêrôes

                     IBID=au=Hom. Il. 5.746:--

                      also of men, opp. monsters, Hom. Od. 21.303:--

                      of men in societies and cities, oute par' andrasin out' en
nausi
                     koilais Pind. O. 6.10; and so prob., allote men t' epi Kunthou
ebêsao
                     . ., allote d' an nêsous te kai aneras . . HH 3.142.

                     III. man, opp. youth, unless the context determines the meaning,
as
                     in ou pôs esti neôterôi andri machesthai andra geronta Hom. Od.
                     18.53; but a. alone always means a man in the prime of life,
esp.
                     warrior, a. helen andra Hom. Il. 15.328; so a. ant' andros
eluthêsan
                     Thuc. 2.103; the several ages are given as pais, meirakion, a.,
                     presbutês Xen. Sym. 4.17; eis andras engraphesthai, suntelein,
                     Dem. 19.230, Isoc. 12.212; eis andras anabênai BMus.Inscr.898;
in
                     Inscrr. relating to contests, opp. paides, IG22.1138.10, etc.

                     IV. man emphatically, man indeed, aneres aste, philoi Hom. Il.
                     5.529; freq. in Hdt., polloi men anthrôpoi, oligoi de andres
au=Hdt.
                     7.210; prosthen ouk a. hod' ên; Soph. Aj. 77; andra gignesthai
se
                     chrê Eur. El. 693; a. gegenêsai di' eme Aristoph. Kn. 1255; ho
                     mathôn a. esei IDEM=Aristoph. Cl. 823; andras hêgountai monous
                     tous pleista dunamenous kataphagein IDEM=Aristoph. Ach. 77; ei
                     andres eien hoi stratêgoi Thuc. 4.27; ouketi a. alla skeuophoros

                     Xen. Cyrop. 4.2.25; ton Aukomêdên . . monon andra hêgounto
                     IDEM=Xen. Hell. 7.1.24; ouk en andrasi not like a man, Eur. Alc.

                     723, cf. au=Eur. Alc. 732; andros ta prospiptonta gennaiôs
pherein
                     'tis the part of a man . ., Men.771, etc.

                     V. husband, Hom. Il. 19.291, Hom. Od. 24.196, Hdt. 1.146, etc.;
eis
                     andros hôran hêkousês tês korês Plat. Criti. 113d; so exoikiein
eis
                     andros [oikon] thugatera Luc.Lex.11:--

                      also of a paramour, opp. posis, Soph. Trach. 551, cf. Eur.
Hipp.
                     491, Theoc.15.131; a. hapasôn tôn gunaikôn esti nun Pherecr.155;

                     aigôn aner Theoc.8.49.

                     VI. Special usages:



                         1. joined with titles, professions, etc., iêtros a. Hom. Il.
11.514;
                         a. mantis, a. stratêgos, Hdt. 6.83,au=Hdt. 6.92=lr (dub.);
a.
                         nomeus Soph. OT 1118; andres lochitai, lêistai, aspistêres,
                         IBID=au=Soph. OT 751,au=Soph. OT 842, ti=Soph. Aj. 565;
                         esp. in disparagement, klôpes a. Eur. Rh. 645; a. dêmotês
                         Soph. Ant. 690; with names of nations, as Phoinikes a. Hdt.
                         4.42; a. Thrêix Eur. Hec. 19,al.; esp. in addresses, a.
ephoroi
                         Hdt. 9.9; a. politai Soph. OT 513; a. dikastai Dem. 21.1,
etc.; ô
                         andres gentlemen of the jury, Antiph. 1.1, Lys. 1.1, etc.; ô
a.
                         Athênaioi IDEM=Lys. 6.8, etc.: hence in Comedy, a. ichthues
                         Archipp.29; a. theoi Luc.JTr.15; ô a. kunes Ath.4.160b.

                         2. ho anêr, by crasis Att. hanêr, Ion. hônêr, is freq. used
                         emphatically for autos, ekeinos Aristoph. Wasps 269, prob.
in
                         Plat. Soph. 216b, etc.: sts. so in oblique cases without the
Art.,
                         Soph. Trach. 55, au=Soph. Trach. 109, au=Soph. Trach. 293,
                         etc.; but not in Prose.

                         3. a. hode, hod' a., in Trag., = egô, Soph. Aj. 78, Eur.
Alc. 690,
                         etc.

                         4. pas a. every man, every one, freq. in Plat. Laws 736c,
al., cf.
                         Eur. Orest. 1523.

                         5. a man, any man, eit' andra tôn hautou ti chrê proïenai;
                         Aristoph. Cl. 1214; ou prepei noun echonti andri Plat.
Phaedo
                         114d, etc.; ou pantos andros . . esth' ho plous 'tis not
every
                         one that can go, Nicol.Com. 1.26.

                         6. ô daimoni' andrôn Eup.316; and often with a Sup., ô
philtat'
                         andrôn Phryn.Com.80, etc.

                         7. kat' andra viritim, Isoc. 12.180, POxy.1047 iii 11,
                         BGU145.5, etc.; so tous kat' andra individuals, opp. koinêi
tên
                         polin, D.Chr.32.6.

                         8. In LXX, anêr = hekastos, dote moi anêr enôtion ti=LXX
                         Jd.8.24; a. tôi adelphôi autou proskollêthêsetai 'each to
his
                         fellow', of leviathan's scales, ti=LXX Jb.41.8; also a. heis
4
                         Ki.au=LXX Jb. 6.2; with negs., a. mê episkepêtô IBID=au=LXX
                         Jb. 10.19; anêr anêr any one, Le.au=LXX Jb. 15.2.

                         9. andras graphein: to en didaskalou ta paidia onomata
                         graphein, Hsch.



                     VII. male animal, Arist.HA637b15.

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